November Novelties Color Challenge

It is time for a new month of color challenges over at the Outlawz.  November brings us November Novelties.  What is this, you ask?  This is the twist that goes along with our Color Inspirations.  November we are sponsored by the fabulous Paper Shelter.  I had SEW much fun coloring this image Cute Dressmaker.  She is just SEW cute!!  I used some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers, some red ric rac and of course my sewing machine.

What is the color inspiration?  These gorgeous colors were brought to us by Sara this week, just wait til you see all the teamies amazing creations with these fun colors. 

 

The November  Novelties is to use twine.  Do you ever go through a challenge and get your card all done and then remember there was a twist. Umm yeah, even when it is my own challenge I forget!!  LOL, well I was lucky cuz the twist was TWINE.  Love when you luck out like that!!

I had fun with the inside of this card too.  I used a Tim Holtz die cut for the inside with more of that MME paper. 

Now, our sponsor, The Paper Shelter is sponsoring us with a $20 gift certificate.  You could get your own Cute Dressmaker image!!!

Of course I want to add my card to the challenge at the Paper Shelter for their Anything Goes challenge. 

Free December Daily Sets

Who loves free?  You have got to run on over to The Cutting Cafe.  Regina is offering her December Daily sets free through Wednesday, November 2nd.  If you have ever wanted to try out the Cutting Cafe digitals, here is your chance to try some for free!!!

We are back!!

Our summer vacation is over!!  We took a little break over at Anita Be Stampin, but we are back with a new challenge.  We are ready to start seeing your fabulous projects again.  We have a brand new challenge for you with the release of Broomhilda and Frankenbride in digital format.  The challenge is to make a Spooky Halloween themed project.  I played with Broomhilda this week. 

I don't have any Halloween themed paper so I used this black and cream paper, sewed along the edges in orange, added some orange paper, ribbon and button and a sentiment from The Cutting Cafe.  Now I would love to see what you have for us!  

Anita is starting the challenges back up with a Bang!! This first challenge will have a $25 ABS gift certificate for the winner.  The challenges will now require you to use an ABS image on your project.  You will want to check out the rules in the side bar of the challenge blog. 

Don’t have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! You can always join the Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group where members have access to a free digi image.

Also, for a very limited time you can snag the Batty digi image absolutely FREE at www.anitabestampin.com.  This cute bat image is perfect for this week’s challenge! ;) 

Now I am going to add this to the challenge at  

iCopic has orange and black

Octoberfest with an Oddball Twist

It is Tuesday and time for another Color Challenge over at the Outlawz.  The Oddball twist this week is to recycle something onto your card.  I used cardboard to cut out my gears with my Tim Holtz sizzix die cut.  And of course I used his distress ink to ink up the edges of everything. 

I used this darling image from Bugaboo, our October sponsor.  The prize for the month of October is 7 digi stamps from Bugaboo. How fabulous is that?!!  I used Deacon Wings and cut him out.  I didn't want the heart on my card. The background is from The Cutting Cafe, Monster Love Background and the sentiment is fromSpooky Square Sentiments.

 And here is your color inspiration for this weeks challenge. 

You will want to take the time to play along this month for your chance to win.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft your passion has use Kraft paper.

Crafty Cardmakers has Cute with a dark twist. 

iCopic has black and orange as its challenge.

Make it Monday with the Kraft Journal has Anything Goes.

Make My Monday has black and orange as its challenge. 

FALL Recipe Challenge

This is my favorite time of the year.  I love when the green leaves are changing colors; from green to yellow, to orange and even red.  I just see God's masterpiece everywhere I look.  It amazes me how many colors of green that He created and then how those greens can change to other colors.  Amazing.  Over at Guylou's Inimitability Gina has brought us a real challenge this month.  She challenges us to make a FALL project.

F-Fabric

A-Amber

L-Lace

L-Leaves

I took G's image Thanksgiving Goodies and printed it on fabric.  I took a piece of cream fabric, used my ATG to apply adhesive to my cardstock and attached the fabric and then ran it through my printer.  I worked really well.  I used some AMBER colored thread to make a border and then pulled the threads from the edges.  I then sewed it to the other material, added some leaves, added the backing and sewed a border.  It really is more square than my pic looks!!

This really is a fun little project for some easy Fall decorating.  I hope you will head on over and check out the other FALL projects by my teamies.  There is some fabulous inspiration on the challenge blog. 

I also know that we are having a design team call right now, so if you would like to be a part of this fabulous team check out the deets on how to apply.

Boxes, Boxes, Boxes

Over at The Cutting Cafe this week we have lots of inspiration using the Bags and Boxes cutting files.  I used the Halloween Pillow Box file to create a little Spider pillow box filled with treats.

These little pillow boxes are so easy to use. I went a bit simple with this one. This is the reason you save packaging materials.  I cut out a piece of plastic from one package and attached to the inside of the pillow box so the treats won't fall out!  You will want to head on over to the Cutting Cafe and check out all the fabulous Inspiration projects from my teamies.  And did you recieve the email from The Cutting Cafe this morning?   Regina is having a great sale. 

Our special this week from today until Friday at midnight October 21th 2011, you can choose ANY increments of 5 BAGS OR BOXES for $5.00

Head on over and check out all the fabulous files to choose from. 

Happy Birthday Guylou!!! Surprise!!

Welcome to the Surprise Birthday Party of our friend and digital artist, Guylou.  Today is her birthday and she is such a SPECIAL lady that we just wanted to share it with everyone.  I have been a friend to Guylou for about 5 years now and feel so blessed to have her as a part of my life.  She is Uber~talented and just a sweetheart.  We, her design team and friends have decided to honor her with a blog hop for her birthday.  I am so excited to be the beginning of this hop with a card using one of her earlier images.

Bernadette is from her Retro Ladies line.  She is a very elegant lady, just like Guylou!!! 

OK, now we know that you like to find an awesome RAK at the end of a blog hop, so Gina has graciously provided an amazing prize (one pack of 4 copic multiliners, one pack of 2 stardust pens, a black memento ink pad, and a $5 gift card to Guylou's Inimitability) for one winner that will be chosen by Random.org at the end of this hop. 

 You will have from now until Sunday

 October 16th at 11:59 PM EST to complete the hop, leaving comments on all blogs along the way and ending at Guylou's blog to wish her a happy birthday. 

You will want to head on over to Carmen's blog now and see what she has created to wish G (as we call her) a very Happy Birthday.

And if you happen to get lost along the way here is a list to get you to all the stops.

Brenda ~ You are here

Carmen 

Kim 

Sara 

Tracy 

Trina 

Gina

Guylou ~aka the birthday girl!

The Deets of my card:

I used some of my favorite Echo Park paper from the "For the Record" collection. I thought it fit will with this image.  Happy Birthday comes from the AmyR Elegant Greetings stamp set.